The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,335 pages of information about The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2.

The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,335 pages of information about The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2.

Mr. PHILLIPS’ Theory of Marco Polo’s Route through Fo-Kien.

Scene in the BOHEA MOUNTAINS, on Polo’s route between Kiang-Si and Fo-Kien. 
From Fortune’s Three Years’ Wanderings.

Scene on the MIN RIVER below Fu-chau.  From the same.

The KAAN’S FLEET leaving the Port of ZAYTON.  The scenery is taken from an engraving in Fisher’s China, purporting to represent the mouth of the Chinchew River (or River of Tswan-chau), after a sketch by Capt. (now Adm.) Stoddart.  But the Rev. Dr. Douglas, having pointed out that this cut really supported his view of the identity of Zayton, being a view of the Chang-chau River, reference was made to Admiral Stoddart, and Dr. Douglas proves to be quite right.  The View was really one of the Chang-chau River; but the Editor has not been able to procure material for one of the Tswan-chau River, and so he leaves it.

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The KAAN’S FLEET passing through the Indian ARCHIPELAGO.  From a drawing by the Editor.

Ancient JAPANESE EMPEROR, after a Native Drawing.  From the Tour du Monde.

Ancient JAPANESE ARCHER, after a native drawing.  From the same.

The JAPANESE engaged in combat with the CHINESE, after an ancient native drawing.  From Charton, Voyageurs Anciens et Modernes.

JAVA.  A view in the interior.  From a sketch of the slopes of the Gedeh Volcano, taken by the Editor in 1860.

Bas Relief of one of the VESSELS frequenting the Ports of JAVA in the Middle Ages.  From one of the sculptures of the BORO BODOR, after a photograph.

The three Asiatic RHINOCEROSES.  Adapted from a proof of a woodcut given to the Editor for the purpose by the late eminent zoologist, Edward Blyth.  It is not known to the Editor whether the cut appeared in any other publication.

MONOCEROS and the MAIDEN.  From a mediaeval drawing engraved in Cahier et Martin, Melanges d’Archeologie, II.  Pl. 30.

The BORUS.  From a manuscript belonging to the late CHARLES SCHEFER, now in the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

The CYNOCEPHALI.  From the Livre des Merveilles.

ADAM’S PEAK from the Sea.

SAKYA MUNI as a Saint of the Roman Martyrology.  Facsimile from an old German version of the story of Barlaam and Josaphat (circa 1477), printed by Zainer at Augsburg, in the British Museum.

TOOTH Reliques of BUDDHA. 1.  At Kandy, after Emerson Tennent. 2.  At Fu-chau, after Fortune.

“CHINESE PAGODA” (so called) at Negapatam.  From a sketch taken by Sir Walter Elliot, K.C.S.I., in 1846.

PAGODA at TANJORE.  From Fergusson’s History of Architecture.

Ancient CROSS with Pehlvi Inscription, preserved in the church on ST. THOMAS’S MOUNT near Madras.  From a photograph, the gift of A. Burnell, Esq., of the Madras Civil Service, assisted by a lithographic drawing in his unpublished pamphlet on Pehlvi Crosses in South India.  N.B.—­The lithograph has now appeared in the Indian Antiquary, November, 1874.

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